The Sun. — London, England, 1838-01-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1838. the reas ot why this country had been involved in all those enormous difficulties that at present existed, and out of which be confesecel he wus not sanguine enough to say that he could clesrly see how they were to escape. But he emelt also to add. with resecct to eqe sitrition in ,C 1 1 VII tile Go% crement s teed at this m went in Lower Canada, that it w•s nit eitla out resourses out of which the Governor aed Judges, and those persons when: successive Governments had believed to be i rotes r objects of an independent provision, could be peid : because the G nut-anent had the whole of the territorial and casual revel - Ale, and they bed also 10,0001. a year voted per manently by the Legislature oc Lower Canada itself by two se p a rate Acts since 179 1 ; so th t his Noble and Le reed Vriced eas sernew'nat mistaken if he thought that the Legis lature of Lower Casada Lad never had any power over the purse before the. Bill of 1831. Lord B ROUG 11 A M--Not a complete controul. The Earl of RIPON—No, net completely, certainly. he cause there were still those two resources of which he (Lord Ripon) had s; °ken.' But, in point of fact, subsequent"to 1791 the Legislature of Lower Canada passed two laws giving to the Governnie nt tan sums of 5,0001. for ever, for the purpose of mainteining the Civil Government in that colony. '1 hose two sums, together with the revenues he bad men tionedewoeld amount to not less titan 24,0001. or 30,000/. a year. Although he admitted that that sum was not sufficient to pay all the expenses which used to be defrayed either out of the funds at the disposal of the Government, or out of the grant; made by Parliament, yet, as far as regarded those par velar individuals, the mainta . nance of whose independence in their offices was consid. red essential, the Government un epiesiionably hail the power even yt to pay them. With re spect to the., proposed address, he entirely ccneurrrd in whet had Nike from his Noble Friend (the Duke of Wellington). He did not feel any disposition to canvass it, or to object to lie adoption; but he must beg to guard himself against being supposed to express any opinion whatever as to the scheme in tended fur the future, or as to the attempt to be made for the settlement of this question. Ile could not, however, give his acquiescence to this address without expressly guarding himself as to another point involved in this discussion, namely. that such acquiescence on his part by no means itrplied any approbation of the course pursued during did last nine months. He admired the oandour of the Noble Viscount at the head of her Majesty's Govern. anent, becaSsse the Noble Viscount had stated in a perfectly fair and manly n s a nner the matter about the troop s, and ha admitted that there s7' a great deal to be said on both sides and he certainly did not at ienear to take any very strong ground, to justify the course that had be,7n Pursued by the Govern ment in respect to this branch of the .; etestlon. For himself, he (Lord Ripon) thought that that course . had been a most to o i ccasion unfortunste one, and had very much contribute ,' that explosion which had taken place in Lower Cameo., and which involved the necessity of those measures that were now suggested. It was evident that it was the intention of the Government now to send out troops to Canada. That in tention was communicated by his Noble Friend (Lord Glenelg) to Lord Gosford on the 6th of March, 1837. Well, on the 22d of March, his Noble Friend again wrote to Lord Gosford, and said—" Since I made my communica tion of the 6th to you, I have ascertained that it would not be possible to detach such a force without extreme inconve nience, and making a demonstration which might be produc tive of much greater evil than it could prevent ;" and then his Noble Friend suggested that in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia there were between two thousand and three thousand men, who, in case of need, might be drawn from those provinces. Now, as it had been stated by his Noble Friend (the Duke of Wellington) that it might be pro per to give power to remove those troops, but that he could not conceive a more obvious policy than that of filling up the vacancy which the removal of those troops would create. But to what was this inconvenient pressure, of which his Noble Friend (Lord Glenelg) spoke, to be attri buted? He (Lord Ripon) found that Lord Gosford, when writing on the 10th of June, not long after he had received the second letter of Lord Glenelg, in which he stated there were particular reasons against sending out additional troops. stated that he had sent to Sir Colin Campbell for a part of the troops stationed at Halifax ; adding, however, this passage :—" I must repeat that these steps would not be dictated by the apprehension of any serious commotion, for I have every reason to believe that the mass of the Ca nadians are loyal and contented ; but from the persuasion that the presence of a larger military force in this Province might of itself"—do what? Increase the difficulties already ex isting ? Increase the chance of the disaffected succeeding ? Make the Government of Lower Canada less able to promote tranquillity ? Not at all ; but that it would " prevent the occurrence of any disturbance by deterring the ill-disposed, securing the wavering, and giving confidence to the timid." Why, it the state of Lower Canada was such that the pre sence cf additional troops were wanting there, because :there were ill-disposed persons to be deterred, wavering persons to be secured, and timid persons to whom confidence was to be given, ought not that to have led the Government to infer that the state of the Province was such that it was not safe to leave it without having a power capable of overwhelming the very first attempt that might be made to disturb the peace, and thus prevent those lamentable consequences of an insurrection which, whether successful or not, was certain to occur? As time went on the necessity of such a course appeared to have been constantly increasing. In consequence of no additional troops having been sent out Sir John Colborne was at length eginpelled to draw every soldier from the Upper Province, in order to maintrin his ground in the lower Province. It was true that Sir Francis Head, with the gallant spirit of an English soldier, took great credit to himself for volunteering to send away all the troops from Upper Canada, and he seemed to think that it was a great thing in point of policy to show that the people of that Psovince did not require the presence of any troops for the purpose of holding them to their allegiance, and to show also that there was no danger in that part of the country of a re voit. But the Gallant Officer was in error : that danger did exist. A Mr. Mackenzie, who had been so often spoken of, brought men together, and there was an actual breaking out. Now it was impossible that he could have got together 500 or SCO persons to make an attack upon the city of To ronto—though he was madman enough to do almost anything, for he was certainly the most absurd man that ever existed— if any Br t'sh soldier bad been there. It turned out that Mr. Mackenzie was beaten, and fled to the United States, where he was amusing himself in all poss ble ways to stir up the people to aid the revolt, but where, as it was not likely he could be got hold of, he would no doubt long remain. But what did all this show ? The proper precaution had not been taken by the Government. Lord Gosford had felt himself called upon to dismiss a great number of the officers of the militia, and among others the great agitator, or whatever he was called, Mr. Papineau, who happened to be a militia officer : and he (Lord Ripon) thought it was a very doubtful thing whether Lord Gosford would have con sidered it prudent to have called out the militia on his own authority, in order to act with the King's troops. Lord Gosford said that he believed, by the law of the colony, the militia could not have been called out, unless against actual invasion. But then in exact proportion to the difficulty of calling out the militia, whether arising from the state of the law or from their indisposition towards the Government, did it become the more imperative duty of the Government at home to take the course which they had it in their power to do, by having a larger body of troops esta blished in the colony. For these reasons, he could not but conceive that the matter was by no means dealt with in the way in which it ought to have been ; and although he did not ascribe the breakiug out of the rebellion to the want of troops, yet every one knew very well—every one, at least, who bad read the history of the rebellion knew—that though the chances of success amounted almost to nothing, yet the madness and folly of men were sometimes so great, that the slightest ap parent advantage would impel them into the mcst absurd at tempts. It was, therefore, the duty of the Government to have taken care that even that apparent advantage should not have existed, but that there should have been on the spot a military force sufficient at once to crush by one vigorous effort whatever rebellious schemes might have been attempted. Tho Marquis of LANSDOWNE did not mean to enter into the argument introduced by the Noble Earl, but as the Noble Earl had adverted to the fact of the troops being called away from Upper Canada to serve in Lower Canada, he ought also to have stated what was the fact, that Sir Francis Head, who was charged with the Government of Upper Canada ; and en trusted with its destiny at this moment—a destiny which he bad most successfully succeeded in upholding—was in fact the author and suggester of ths measure for sending the troops from Upper to Lower Canada before he had been called upon by Sir John Colborne ; and that lie himself attached the greatest lin; ortalice to the policy of exiii'diting to the Cana dians and to the world that Upper Canada was able to protect its own Government without any troops et all ; and that what ever might be the disposition cf the lower province, such was the a tachmerit and such was the adhesion of the population to that Government, that he. without thelaid of a single sol dier, was enabled to resist any attempt that might be made upon tire Government of that Colony. He (the Marquis of Lansdowne) li d ne doubt whatever that Sir John:Col borne was glad o have the assistance of those troops; but he (the Marquis of Lansdowne) would with equal confidence say, that Sir John Colborne was no less glad that Sir F. Head was without them, for the sake of having given that proof which was now manifest to the world from the circumstance that Mr. Mackenzie seas at this moment a fugitive in the United States, that without a single soldier to oppose the iesurgents he was able to make head against them by the spontaneous aid of the loyal inhabitants of that pert of the pro s ince. Oeittinss this pert of the subject, he was anxious, after what had fallen in such very candid terms from tire Noble Duke opposite (the Duke of • Welliegtore) who had stated his opinions upon this question in a way which did him infleitc honour, and in that spirit in which he was al ways desirous to wive efficient support in cases of this sort to her Majes'y's Government—after such conduct on the pact of tire Noble Duke, he (the M rrquis of Lansdowne) was a-alio:se to remove one or two impressions which seemed partially to influence his mind with regard to the course which her Majesty's Government were disposed to pursue. The Noble Duke adverted in the first instance to the course which lie thought ought to have been adopted with respect to a com raunication being made by her Majesty to Parliament ; and he stated that he could have wished to have seen, in conformity with former precedents, a message communicated from the Thr one. In conformity with precedent a message undoubt edly would have been the proper course; but he (the Marquis of Lansdowne) was anxious to state to their Lordships that it was not from want of a full sense of the importance of the occasion, or of the exertions which Parliament would be called upon to make in support of the Queen's authority. that that mode was not, in the first instance, adopted ; bee it was solely because of the occurrence happening on the day immediately previous to the adjournment, and when it was almost impossible to have obtained the at tention of Parliament, almost every Member being out of totvn ; so that, even if there bad been a message, it voeld have been impessible to have acted upon in the form or an Address. The Noble Duke, professing himself satisfied with the declaration of the Noble Viscount at the head of her Majestyle Government upon that subject, had stated that he had read that in sonic places expressions had been used that there wes a desire, rot so much to support the Queen's authority i,i Canada, es to eive assistance to a party in that country. lie (Ow Marquis of Lansdowne) could only say, that - rest as their duty was to give support to her Majesty's foyer j eta in that country, who he believed would be ultimately and to be the majority the re—confirmed to he was that such as t , -.e first duty on the pert of the Ministers of the Crown dof the Sovereign ; yet, on the part of Parliernent, he ' , weed the first arid most imperative duty to be, to re stablish her Majesty's authority there. Believing that' . vast proportion of the people of Canada was attached this country, he certainly should not regret if there bould appear, from the papers before their Lordships, that fu re had been upon some occasions: a little hesitation r delay in these matters, indicating an unwill in g ness on s he part of the Queen's Government to take strong, or what night he called violent measures. He believed that that un illinguess so maiiirestsd had had a fortunate effect. He be - ieved that by a system of concession, which had been acted pen even to the utmost verge of reason--.-a system intended to .eet the real wants and grievances of the colonies, a great object had been effected by detaching, if not the masses, at least the great moral support—the individuals of greatest con sequence in that county, who might otherwise have been found at the bead of this insurrection. It was owing to that system of concession that men of a very different character from that of Mr. Pap'r.cau cr Mr. Mackenzie were not now th leaders of the reaseee ; but the Canadians of influence end intelligence were known to have seceded from the ranks of that opposition which engaged in a desperate course of measures, and which, under the advice and influence of Mr. Papinenu, they were induced to adopt. His Noble Friend had allowed that the Noble Duke had a right to claim credit for prophesying that the House of Assembly of Lower Canada would not fulfil their pledge, which was virtually given for providing a civil list. It was unquestionably true that if that body bad had a shadow of consistency, if there had been anything to be collected from their speeches, resolutions, and communications, and from the examination of witnesses before the Committees of the House of Commons, it was that, the revenues being granted to them, all their wants would be satisfied. But they had placed their own condemnation on record, because they lied declared that the report of the Com mittee of 1828 was a monument of human wisdom, and that it most completely stated all their wishes and all their hopes. His Noble and Learned Friend (Lord Brougham) had spoken three hours upon the subject of this Address, but he did not in one instance advert to that which constituted the very gist of the whole question—namely, that all the demands of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada had been conceded, and t::at it was under the influence of a party, who had since raised the most unreasonable demands, that all the present misfortunes had arisen, and this insurrection had taken place. He (the Matquis of Lansdowne) could have wished to have adverted to what his Noble and Learned Friend had said in his (Lord Brougham's) presence, but al though his Noble and Learno4 Friend had distinguished him self much more than Mr. Papineaa or Mr. Mackenzie was ever distinguished in the course of this night's debate, yet he had certainly acted much like them in one respect—for he had vanished.—(Loud laughter.) All he (the Marquis of Lansdowne) could say was, that knowing the acuteness of his Noble Friend, he (the Marquie of Lansdowne) never was more astonished than to !mar biro maintain that which he had heard maintained by very inferior persona out of that House, namely, that there was anything like a resemblance in the transactions attending this resistance of Lower Canada, and the quarrel with, and resistance of, the United States. Every point connected with the two instances was different. The present resistance had in fact begun where e the other resistance ended. Ha could not s ee any othr rF blance between the two cases than what remit-ied lora of the great :dramatist who represented Captain Fluellen as seeing a great resemblance between Alexander of Ma cedon and Henry of Monmouth, because .there i wMason a river in Macedon and there wa s also a lever n mouth, and because Alexander q uarrelled with' his men without a reason, and Henry q uarrelled with his friends with a reason. So likewise wee it true that the At lantic Ocean divided Canada from En g land, and it also di vided the United States from England ; there was a House of Assembly too in the colonies, as well as a House of Assembly in the United States. But th e q uarrel of the United States was not there ; the question as between the United States and England was a question of internal taxation ; but that right was enjoyed by the Canadians. As to any justification of the course taken by the Houses of Assembly of Lower Ca nada, it might a; well be supposed that the Crown le the dis charge of its duties to the people—for the Crown, it mud I be remembered, had its duties to the people as well as the House of Assembly—it might as well be supposed that the Crown should order its troops to stand by and do nothing in the event of the invasion of an enemy, and to say, " the army belongs to me, and as men have been • elected to the House of Assembly of whom I do not ap prove, or because the House of Assembly has come to some vote which does not accord with my views, my troops shall not protect the property of tlse people ; the enemy, if he chooses, may enter and ravish the whole coun try." Seeing that the House of Assembly had only exercised its privileges in such a way as to defeat the ends of all Go vernment—seeing that it had refused to discharge all those duties which were incidental to all Governments —seeing, too, that it had been brought into constant and daily contact with the other branches of the Legislature, as well as the Execu tive body, he thought, treating the subject with all the de liberation which belonged to so grave a question, but at the same time with the firm determination which best befitted the character of this country ; and, es he conceived, would most tend to secure the future interests of the colony, that a suffi cient case had been made out fur reconsidering the whole of the Constitution cf the British North American provinces, and of reconstructing it upon an improved, an enlarged, and more harmonious principle. The Earl of DURHAM felt, from the peculiar situation in which he stood, and more especially from the circumstance of his having accepted the high office to which his Noble Friend had alluded, that it would not be consistent with his duty to take an: part in the debate upon the present question. Ile wished, therefore, to address only a very few sentences to their Lordships—a few words explanatory of the general prin ciples which would influence his conduct in the discharge of the grave duties imposed upon him, and of the reasons which had induced him to accept the trust. It is impossible (conti. cued his Lordship) for words to express the reluctance with which I have consented to undertake this arduous task, to in cur the awful responsibility which I know must attach to me in endeavouring to accomplish the objects of ray mission ; and I can assure your Lordships that nothing but the most devoted attachment, nothing but the moat determined devotion to her Majesty's service, and the service of my country, could have induced me to place myself in the situation in which I very much fear I shall not answer the expectations either of my Noble Friende who place me there, or of the country gene. rally.—(llear. ) The Noble Duke has stated, in the course of the discussion of this evening, that he had very much re gretted to hear it said that one of the objects of the intended measures with respect to Canada was merely the support of a particular party in that province. It is not with that view that I by any means shall undertake the mission.—( Hear, hear.) I believe that my duty, in the first place, will be to assert the supremacy of her Majesty's Government—( Hear)—to assert the dignity and honour of the i3ritish Crown, and to see that the law is carried into execution—that it is not set aside in the remotest cabin or in the most distant 2t,ttloment.—(l - lear. ) I shall not conceive that I have done my duty as long a; there is the slightest pretence for considering that the dignity of the Crown or the supremacy of the law continues to be violated.— ( Hear.) Having effected that necessary and essential preli minary object, I shall consider, without reference to party, casting aside all reflections that may concern either the British perty cr the French party in that country—iieleed, I know no French—( Hear, hear) —I can regard ail only as her Ma jesty's subjects—( [leer, hear) —having effected the ncces nary and essential preliminary objects to which I have ad. I vested, I shall consider that I ought to extend protection to all, to give justice to all—( Hear, hear, hear)—that I ought to endeavour to protect as much the local rights arid privileges of those who are the possessors and proprietors of the soil as the great commercial interests which more effect those who are called the British settlers.—( Hear.) The Noble and Learned Lord, at the end of his loeg and eloquent speech, liar. been pleased to say that I shall execute but a thankless task in carrying out with me the measure for the sus pension of the Canadian Constitution. Ido not agree with Lim. Ido not think that this measure, or any of the Acts of Parliament which are in contemplation, can be regarded in any such light.—( Hear.) The Constitution has already been de facto suspended, not by an Act of the British Parliament, but by the rebellion of the Canadians themselves.—(Hear, hear.) I consider, the: efore, that Igo there, not for the purpose of suspending the Constitution, but for the purpose of endeavouring to provide, as well as I can, for the extraor dinary state of circumstances which has been produced by the • rebellious part of the Canadian community, and which has render d it impossible for the Constitution to continue in ope ration. These are the vices with which I shall consent to undertake what I admit to be a great and awful tsponsi hility_these are the views with which I shall enter upon the exercise of powers greater, I know, than are usually en. trusted to the discretion of an individual.—(Hear. ) Great and dictatorial as these powers are, I shall be anxious to lay them down at the earliest possible time. Believe me, my Lords, I shall endeavour to execute as speedily as possible this highly honourable, but most difficult and dangerous mission.— ( Ilear.) A; far as conct mils the principal province, it would Inc m y wish—and I implore my Noble Friends to give me the means of accomplishing it—to effict such a kind of settlemert a.; should produce contentment mid harmony amoegst all classe-, enable me to establish not temporarily but lastingly the supremacy of the laws, and finally, to leave behind law such a system of Government as may tend to the general prospe'ity and happiness of one of the most important por dens of her Majesty's dominions.—(Hear.) If I can accom plish such an objets: as that, I shall deem no personal sacrifice of my own too great.—( Hear, hear.) I feel however that I can only accomplish it by the cordial and energetic support, a supped which lam sure I shall obtain—of my Noble Friends the Members of her Majesty's Cabinet, by the co operation of the Imperial Pael:aetent, and, permit me to say, by the generous forbearance of the 1:ohle Lords opposite, to whom I have always been politically opposed.—( Hear, hear, hear.) tercel the candour and generosity which have uistinguished the Noble Duke's, rerearki this evening, as well as upon all other occasions, I trust that lie and those that think with ton will give me credit for the good intentions which feel, and will only condemn tee if they find my actions such as shall enable them cousistently with their own character to find fault.—( Hear, hear.) i will not teoahje your Lordships farther, I thought it right to state the feelin • is with which rater upon this misiion, and to explain ti your Lordships, that / go not for the purpose of ex e rcising that power, that spec i e s of discreditable power, as the Noble and L e arned Lord cal it, which is to be vested in me; but in the first place to restore, I trust, the supremacy of the law, and nest, to be the humble initrumnt of conferring upon tin, British North American provinces. such a free and liberal Constitution as shall place them on the same sea!e of independ(nce the rest of the I,ossessious of Great Brit , ?in, and As shall nd to their own immediate honour, welfare, and pros- h airy.—( Hear.) Lord GLENELG, having stated that he should trespass on their L rdshipe only for a very short t ime in reply, ssid— I must be al'owed, with my No bl e Friend (the Marquis of Lansdowne) near me, to exaress my regret that the Noble and Learned Lord (Brougham) has been pleased to remove from this scene of action. Abiit, evasit, erupit. Having vented his thunder with no sparing hand, and having also heaped upon me those measures of wrath and indignation which seem to be inexhaustible in his mighty bosom—(Laughter and cheers)—he has at length shown me, that having discharged his deg lay bolts, be is esnal,le, like the Thunderer, of veilinss himself in clouds.—( Renewed laughter and cheers.) I soultl have been glad to have returned rey thanks to him for this, the first testimony of his friendship with wh ich he has favoured me.—( Laughter.) I have been much in the habit of hewing the Noble and Learned Lord l aunch out in vectives and point his sneers at persons infinitely above me in character and station, and much more intimately coneected with himself than I have the honour to be ; but I am and was surprised at the inexhaustible I oesibulery. of language with which he had charged himself against me to-night—( Hear, hear)—and confess, however, that the violence of the Noble and Learned Lord's invec tive has much less weight upon myself from the circumstance to which I have alluded ; t ause I have seen it applied somewhat indiscriminately to others,not so much from opposition to any Noble Lord whom he chooses to attack, but once engaged in the career of assault the Noble and Learned Lord is carried away with that fe rvour of indigna , tion which is the characteristic of his exalted mind.—( Hear, hear.) lam sorry to make these observations in his absence, but it is not my fault that he has removed himself from the House.—( Hear, hear.) He said it was with pain and sorrow that he felt himself obliged to give utterance to the remarks which fell from him. If the Noble and Learned Lord were here I should say to him, " Do not spare me your invective, but, for God's sake spare me your pain and sympathy. ( Hear, hear.) I need not, lam sure, point out to the House the contrast between the speech of the Noble and Learned Lord and that of the Noble and Illustrious Duke who followed him.—( Hear, bear, hear.) In the speech of the Noble Duke I recognised a mind—in his presence I c esnot express half of what I feel of the candour and magnanimity of a speech which was so consistent with all his own political views, and at the same time so generously candid to his political opponents—yet I must be allowed to say, that in the speech of the Noble Duke I recognised a mind strengthened by long habit of application to the great business of the country—a mind careful of throwing bolts at random either upon this person or upon that, and, above all, not hinting vituperation which it dared not express— ( Hear, hear)--a mind anxious only to do justice to the great cause of the country—anxious only to do justice even to his political opponents, and anxious by the same genius which he had already exercised in rescuing the country from danger in:another theatre, to rescue it again in a different sphere from the possible diminution:of its colonial greatness, —( Hear, hear.) As the Noble and Learned Lord is not pre sent, I will not depict in its full colours the contrast between the speech made by him and that made by the Noble Duke. The contrast, however, is one which I am sure must have struck every Noble Lord who hears me.—(Hear.) The Noble and Learned Lord observed, with respect to one particular point—with respect to the composition of the Legislative Council—that having declared at a somewhat distant period that that Council should be reconstructed prior to the meet hug of the House of Assembly, it nevertheless appaareel by the paper, which had been laid before Parliament that the Commission for effecting that reconstruction was not sent out until the 22d of August. Now, if the Noble and Learned Lord had examined the papers thoroughly he would have foetid in them the explanation of that delay. It was impossi ble for me to send out that Commission until I had been fur nished with the names by Lord Gosford. Early in March, Lord Gosford assured me that the names should be sent, and in two or three subsequent dispatches I alluded to the want of them, Lord Gosford, however, could not send them, because be fobn4 it extremely difficult, in the state of parties in the the Province, to select proper persons. The names did not reach me until the beginning of August. There was certainly no loss of time after the names arrived, for in less than ten days the Commission was made out, a Council held, and the dispatch forwarded to Canada. Do not let it be supposed, as the Noble and Learned Lord was pleased in his generosity to insinuate, that I mean by this explanation to throw any blame upon Lord Gosford. lam stating only what lam sure Lord Gosford would himself state if he were here.—( Hear, hear, hear.) Then the Noble and Learned Lord said that he did not perceivo why this measure, which, in truth, ought to be applied only to a particular district, should be made ge neral ; and he was further pleased to observe, that when ever it Suited my argument I represented the whole country as in a state of rebellion, and at other times spoke of it only as partially disturbed. I nevtrr on any occasion represented the whole country as being in a state of rebellion.—(Hear.) I alway; aaid, and the papers on the table prove the fact, that the rebellion was confined to the district of Montreal. If I apply the measures about to be proposed to the whole coun try, the reason is this—that although the resis'ence to the laws and to the authority of the Crown has been limited to one district, yet that the conduct of the House of Assembly, as the representatives of the whole country, has been such as to render it impossible for the Constitution to proceed ; and I know not how it would be possible to maintain good go vernment, or any government at all , in that country, y if confinsd your measures simply to the district which 13 now in a state of rebellion. The Nubia Lord entered into i sonie further explanations, but this)! were not distinctly heard n the gallery. The Earl of FIT ZWILLIA M rose to addresa the House, but spoke in a tone of voice so extremely low as to be scarcely audible in the gallery. We understood him to sta te the the inference he drew from the observations made by the Noble Duke was, that no government could succeed in Canada un less it were of an arbitrary character. The Duke of WELLINGTON—No, no. The Earl of FITZW I LLIAM knew that the Noble Duke did not make use of those words ; but such was the inference he drew from the remarks and the line of argument entered Keen by the Noble Duke. Their Lordshi p s need not look to the present r.or to the last Administration for the seeds of this rebellioti; they must be sought for in a much more distant period. He begged, however, not to be included among these who doubted the success of the intended mission to the Canadas. When he considered the character of the Noble Earl who was to be entrusted with that mission, he was quite per suaded that his measures would be conducted in that consti tutional spirit from the observance of which alone could an advantageous result be expected. After a few words in explanation from the Duke of WE L LINGTON and Earl FITZWILLIAM, the motion for the Address was agreed to nem. con., and at a quarter past eleven o'clock their Lordships adjourned. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen gave audiences yesterday, at the new Palace, to the rquis Conyngham, the Earl of Albemarle, and Viscount Melbourne. Her Majesty had a s mall dinner party last evening, including her Royal Highnuss the Duchess of Kent, the Lord Chamberlain, the Mar quis of Headfurt, Lady Portman, Lady Mary Stopford, Hon. Miss Mur ray, Miss Litter, Baroness Lehrm, Lady Theresa Digby, Viscount Torrington, Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Sir Frederick Stavin, and the Hon. Colonel Grey. The band of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards attended e the Pa:a:e on Wednesday evening. The Earl of Durham, and Mr. Co'quhoun (agent for St. Vincent's) transacted business yesterday at the Colonial-office. Mi ss Davys, NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. A cori - espoLdent who signs himself V. R. has addressed us a long letter in which be comments with considerable anger on, what he is pleased to call, the "style" and" ribaldry" of our remarks on the speech made lately by Sir James Graham, at Carlisle. Now we made no remark on that speech that we are nut vrepat ed to substantiate ; and as for our expression " flippant impertinence," we hod that when a man of Sir James Graham's very peculiar 1 olities, indulties in a lengthy tirade against Lord Brougham's " inconsistencies," and then compares him to " Lucifer," he is guilty of "flippant impertinence," to use the mildest term. The severest part of our correspondent's letter, however, and that which we feel the most acutely, does not lie in his comments, but in his non-payment of the postage, which is a species of practical sarcas m, that we hope he will refrain from, should he think fit to honour us with another communication. HIGH WATRR AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. 13 minutes after 8 I Evening _ _ The publication of TuE SUN NRWSPXPER commenced this day, at 30 atinutss past Three o' Clock. LONDON: FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, MS. The HousE of LORDS met yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock, and adjourned at 11. The subject of the nights' discussion ,XB3 the Address to be presented to her MAJESTY relative to Canada. This Address, as described by Lord GLENELG, who moved its adoption by the House, generally expresses the re gret of their Lordship at the state of affairs in Canada, and pledges the House to support the Crown in whatever mea uris may be necessary to maintain the integrity of the Empire. The Address was agreed to nem dis. The debate in the House of Lords last night on the Canada question is in the highest degree interesting— mere particularly Lord BROUGHAM'S speech—of which we hare taken some pains to give a fuller and more correct report than will be found in the columns of any of our Morning Contemporaries. Regarded as an oratorical effort, that speech is one of the most masterly ever delivered by the Noble and Learned Lord in the House of Peers. He overwhelmed Lord GLENELG with a flood of the bitterest sarcasm, and assailed with a torrent of invective, irony, and scorn, the temporizing, vacillating, half-and-half, Colonial policy of the Cabinet. His not inapt quotation of the encouraging monition of the Swedish Chancellor OXENSTIERN, when about to send his son, the❑ a youth, on an Embassy—" you know not, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed,"—seems to have fired the Noble Colonial Secretary, who, in his reply, thought proper to borrow the language of CICERO on the absence of CATALINE—Lord BROUGHAM having previously left the House. Notwithstanding the oecasional intemperance of his language, Lord _ _ BROUGHAM i 3 110 more a CATALINZ than Lord GLENELG is a CICERO—and few who have ever had the pleasure of hearing the Noble Colonial Secretary will trouble themselves about instituting a comparison between his most studied orations and those of the Roman Consul, when denouncing the flight and traitorous designs of the Patrician rebel. The defence made by the Government for not accom- panying the coerc v.: resolutions with a military force strong enough to prevent rebellion, was weak and inconclusive. In the first place, Ministers maintained that no increase of the army in Canada was necessary : whereas in reality they evidently dreaded the imputation of intending to do what they had resolved to do—coerce the Canadians. They wished to “ roar as gently as sucking doves," lest they might disturb the equanimity of the people of Eng land, or bring upon themselves, as a Government, the imputation of entertaining a thought hostile to the liberties of any portion of our fellow-subjects. The Earl of RIPON justly reprobated the temerity of Sir FRANCIS B. HEAD, who, to make a foolish and uncalled for display of the loyalty of the Upper Province, exposed the seat of Government to an attack from a body of rebels, who all but succeeded in making him a prisoner in Toronto. The Noble Earl observed with much force, that had there been lihe ordinary quota of troops in the Upper Province, here . would have been no disturbance, and, conse ' uently, no occasion for punishing criminals, who, but for the rashness of the Government, would never have IJeen induced to incur the guilt of rebellion. In one point of view, the debate in the Lords ast night, was very important—it served to de velope more clearly than the debates in the Commons had done, the future designs of Mi nisters with respect to Canada. Thus, the Con stitution is to be suspended for three years ; so that there will be ample timeto debate the provisions of the new Constitution. This very important fact was not so much as intimated in any of Lord JOHN Rus- SELL'S three speeches on the question. Again the election of the ten persons who, in the character of Members of the Legislative Assembly, are to assist Lord DURHAM with their advice, is to be by the pre sent body of electors. This also is a fact of some im portance, to which we may advert at some length at a more fitting occasion. It is a real gratification to us to be able to turn from the speeches of her MAJESTY'S Ministers on the Ca nada question, to the brief but admirable speech on the same subject delivered by the Earl of DURHAM. We are not among the number of those who pretend to see the perfection of human wisdom in every word that drops from his Lordship's lips ; neither have we ever subscribed to the sound policy of the acts which have obtained for him a name in the diplomatic circles of Europe. We are therefore not liable to be carried away by an excessive enthusiasm, in characterising the Nobl e Earl's speech of last night, as one of the most states man-like delivered for many years in the Parliament of Great Britain. The Noble Earl's allusion to a pa ssage in the Duke of WELLINGTON'S speech, in order to correct the impression which it was calculated to c onve, embodies the sentiments of a true states- • swan s The Noble Duke has stated, in the ccaarse of the discus ,- of this exciting, that be had very much regretted to hear it said that one of the objects of the intended measures with respect to Canada was merely the support of a parti cul::r party in that province. It is not with that view that I by any means shall undertake the mission.—( Hear, hoar.) I believe that my duty, in the first place, will be to assert the supremacy of her Majesty's Government—(Hear)—to assert the dignity and honour of the British Crown, and to see that the law is carried into execution—that it is not set aside in the remotest cabin or in the most distant settlement.—(Hear.) I shall not conceive that I have done my duty as long as there is the slightest pretence for consideriog that the dignity of the Crown or the supremacy of the law continues to be violated.— ( Hear.) Having effected that necessrry and essential pr,•li rninary object, I shall consider, without reference to party, ~,t i n g as de all reflections that may concern either the British party or the French party in that country—indeed, I knew no French—(Hear, hear)—l can regard all only as her Ma j,:sty's subjects—( sir, hear) —having i ffected the necessary a nd essential preliminary objects to which I have adverted, I shall consider that I ought to extend protection to all, to give justice to all—( Hear, hear hear)—that I ought to en deavour to protect as touch the local rights and piisileges of those who are the possessors and proprietors of the soil as the ureat commercial interests which more effect those who are called the British settlers," Such solitiments as these from the mouth of the re presentative of her MAJESTY, armed with the fullest powers of the Crown, to put down the insurrection in our North American colonies, will not fail to make a deep impression on the minds of the disaffected. The conclusion of the Noble Earl's speech, which elicitcd loud cheep from all parts of the House, was worthy of the cornmeocement ff go not for the purpose of exercising that powor, that FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE ARRIVALS. The Earl of Brownlow, In Belgrave-square, from Belton House, Lin. colnahire ; Lord Farrington, in Cavendish-square, from his srat, Beckett House, Eerks; the Marquis of Granby, at the Carlton Hotel, from Bet. voir Castle; Lord Cantalupe, to Grosvenor-street, from a tour; Sir Sfrat fi,rd Canning, in Grosvcnor.square, from Leamington, Warwickshire; the Righ: Hon. Sir George Rose, in Palace-yard, from Cuirnells, Hants; Lora Petre, in Arlington-street, from Thorndon Hall, Essex ; Lord and Lady Suffield, from Gunton Hall, Norfolk.; the Earl of Albemarle, in Berkeley-square, from Windsor; the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P, the Albany, from the north; Mr. Watbanke Childers, M.P., from Cant -1 ley Hail, Yorkshire; Lord and Lady Carlisle, and the Ladies Howard, in Grosvenor place. from Ro. hampton ; Mrs. Hume, at Warne's Hotel, A lbanarle-street, from Ramsgate; Lord Charles Manners, at the Car:ton Hotel, Regent-street, front Lex, stersh're ; the Hen. It. Scar ett, M.P., add Mrs. Scarlett, in Spring_gardens, from Hastings ; Mr. W. L. Broges, M.P., from Bath ; Baron de ruhert, in Jermyn_street,from Cheltenham ; the Hon. George Cavendish, M.P., in Hanover-square, from a visit to the Duke of Devonshire, at Chatsworth, Derbyshire; the Hon Sydney Her bert, in Grafton-street, from a visit to the Earl arid Countess Bruce, at Savenache Lodge, Marlborough, Wilts; the Hon. W. S. Lascelles, at Hareerood House, Hanover -square, from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Harewood ; the Earl of Jermyn, in St 'James's-sq uare' from a visit to the Duke c f Rutland, at Belvoir Castle ; Sir William and Lady Maria SomerviEe, from a visit to the Dowager Marchioness of Conyngira - n, at Bifions, her seat, near Canterbury ; th e Hon. Mrs. Stopfora, from Chelten ham ; the Marquis of Chando s, i n Pall_rnall, from the seat of the Du ke of Buckingham, Stowe, near Buckingham ; Lord and Lady Ashley, in Grosvenor-street, from a visit to the Mar quis and Marchioness of Anglesey, at Beaudesert, Staffordshire ; the Hon. Cecil Forrester, from a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Beau fort, at Badminton, Glouccslershira ; Lord and Lady Dungannon, in i T n iB G it r o t s o v t e h n e o r .s i t a r ' e g e u t I,4f.r(o)fmlC.t(hret o ° f n t ' h e Earl o f and Lady Pee', at Dray. Lord Hotham, in 11M-street, from South_ at Castle 4 ( l ; i r sa a hr f br t y o , Grafton-street t sst fr a:, offnnoi Bandon, hire; Balton hall, near Be- - Lrley, Yorkshire; the lion. William Bagot, in St. from tAs stsa', North Dvcon. jt:nniNelsa'':;Ogru;'Zi; ' f r r h orn oma a s v D is y i l t le tt A l oSliarndl,43l;-a7tt., DEPARTURES. Mrs. Davis, from Warne'‘ Ilotd, Albemarle - street, f,r Liverpoo' .ptain Try, from ditto, for Southampton. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland will leave Alnwiek Castle on the Ist Feb, for London. Inuch inconvenience has been felt throughout the metropolis durieg the last f e w day., iuennsequt nee or the great scarcity of water , produc ed b y the p rolon g ed ce n ti nuanc e of the frost. During the whole of yeste!day pe r , o ,,, were employed to kindle immens e fires immediately above the plugs in the main pipes, to enable them to obtain even a scanty supply, he London and Southampton 114i1way i T s rap :4l y prodeeding towards completion—the line from the teirdnus at Nine Elms, through Kingston ? nearly to Guildford, will be open to the public in May next ; and from Winton to south aropton in the course of next summer. species of discreditable po.arer, as the Noble and Learned Lord cabs it, which is to be vested in me : but in the first place to restore, I trust, the supremacy of the law—and next, to be the humble instrument of conferring upon the B, itish North American provinces such a free and liberal Constitution as shall place them on the same scale of independynce as the rest of the possessicJ:s of Great Britain, and as shall trill to their own immediate honour, welfare, and prosperity." We shall to-morrow return to this subject. It will be seen from the debate of last night that Lord G LENEI,G, gave a satisfactory explanation, which could not be obtained from Lord Joti - s• RUSSELL, re lative to the appointment of the Commissionrrs for Lower Canada. They arc very properly to be elected by the present constituent body. We are glad to find his Lordship so explicit. His words are There are now five districts in Lower Canada from which we propose to have these representatives chosen under the present franchise." Lord BROUGGAM—" I3v the whole of the present electors ?" Lord GLENELG— " By the whole of the present electors." Any arrange ment less favourable to the inhabitants of the Lower Province would have been received as a mockery of justice, and we cannot see, if Ministers had made up their minds, why this was not announced at first. The whole of the Paris Papers of Wednesday have been received. The following are extracts fiom them:— HANovER, JAN. 11.—King Ernest has convoked the States, agreeably to the Constitution of 1819, for the 20th of February next. Many arbitrary changes have been in troduced by his Majesty in the Electoral Law, as established by that Constitution, with the view of increasing the number of Members of the House of Noblemen, and of reducing that of the Deputies. The King promises to submit a new funda mental law to the approbation of the States.— Commerce. • • Our private corrrspondence from the frontiers of Spain details at great length the manner in which the English naval force occupies Pas:ages, and fortifies itself there. Every day fresh solders are landed The particulars transmitted to us, and respecting the correctness of which it is impossible for us to raise the least doubt, positively contra dict the assertions lately made in the Tribune on the same subject, by the Minister of Foreign Affairs.—Private Correspondence of the Ga. zette de France. BATO:4NR, JAN. 13.—M. Mole declared to the Chamber of Peers, in the debate on the Address, that the English had erected only a redoubt at Passages. This pmves that the Ministry is ill served by its agents, and that it ought to change them—or that it knowingly deceives France. We all know that Lord John Hay has caused a citadel of hewn stone to he built, that several forts have also been erected between that place and St. Sebastian, that the garrison of British troops amount to 1,250 Ma. rines, and that every English vessel that arrives at St. Sebastian, lands without noise, little detachments of 20 or 30 men. If the Mole Ministry had any frankness, they would make known to the Cham ber the remonstrances that are addressed to them by the merchants every day. Merchants point out the immense loss which they sustain, in consequence of the policy adopted towards Spain, the Ports of which are invaded by the English in that country, by its contraband trade, and by the immense supplies with which it furnishes the two parties contend. ing for the Throne of Spain, and annihilate our commerce. What faith can he given to the words of the Ministry when we hear its President deny in the Tribune what we all know here ? We have seen the fortifications of Passages, and have seen the material for erecting them supplied.—Gazette de France, Jan. 7. PARIS, Jaw. 16.—We are still without news from Madrid later than the 7th. A letter of that date says that the conduct of Espartero is se verely criticised. Four mails from France, and the Ministers were ex. pecting with great impatience the result of the Address of the Chamber of Deputies en the affairs of Spain. Troubles at Murcia, Canada, and Malaga arc spoken of. Want of money everywhere hinders military operations, and people are astonished to see the Carlists keep the field in spite of the rigour of the season.—Le Commerce. It is said that the Earl of Durham, on being applied to by the Government, refused the arduous and respon sible office of Governor-General of the British posses. sions in North America, and at last undertook it only at the personal request of the Sovereign. • Lord Glenelg likened the conduct of Lord Brougham last night to that of Cataline, and ended the climax 'w comparing him to the Great Thunderer veiling himself in clouds. It is amusing to see the contrast which his Lordship drew between an old colleague, ever fore most in the cause of Reform, and a political opponent, the Duke of Wellington, ever among the lass. MARKETS.-(THIS DAY ) CORN EXCHANGE. There are small arrivals this week of both Grain and Flour; and the navigation of the River being stopped by ice, the trade for every ar, tide is in a state of suspension. There is some business doing in Flour at rather higher prices. ARRI V ALS. Wheat. Barley. 1 Oats. Flour. ElngliFh Irish - 7,630 Foreign - - SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET. Owing to its being known that trade was bad, much stock was kept out of the market, and the supply was small. There was but little business done, and prices much about as before. ?RIMS FEZ STONE OF BLB. TO St TUN OFFALS.. _____ ... s. d. to 1. el. s. 0. to s. d. Inlerier 8ea5t5............ 2 2 1 4 Inferi4r Sheep 3 0 3 2 Second quality ditt0....,. 2 if 3 0 Second quality ditto 3 4 3 6 Prime large 0w........... 3 4 3 8 Coars9-woolled ditto 3lO 4 0 l'i , llti Achtl. &C. Large coarse Calves 4 8 5 4 Large Hogs ..... 3 2 4 8 irlme small ditto Slckling Calves each —lB ' 35 61 Quarter old Pig s each, 12 0 1.0 vi auvrty AT MARKET. Ficaata. I Sheep I Ca l l("6'e11"0 fiOti 7,225 • NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. At per stune. ity the Carcass. ii t si sdto s d. 3eef, inferier..,... ..... 210 3 A Mutton, inferior - middling 3 2 3 4 -- .... ? 3 S 310 - prime laige - prime sm all ...... S 810 ,Par's, large 4 4 Vaal PRO VISION MARKET. Even this market Is securing but little business now, as if there are country orders in it, they cannot be executed owing to the &ost. Prices continue firm. Dutch Butter is quoted at 1 Ns. for the top price. Imp MARKET. More basinegs done today, and prices a shade higher. COLONIAL MARKETS. It is some time since we had so little business done in these markets as was done to.day. Of produce we had not a single public sale of Sugar or Coffee of any kind. Three small sales, one of Saltpetre, another of Rice, and another of Ginger, are all that we had to-day ; and they are of no public importance whatever. Quotations of all kinds of Sugar, Coffee, Tea, Rice, Spices, Cocoa, Rum and Cotton re main unmoved; and there is no appearance of these being altered at present. In fact, the severe and continued frost nearly suspends all wholesale business of every description. 'lllO imports are of course very slender indeed. INDIGO SALE.—(FOURTH DAY.) Tho character of this sale, as it progresses from day to day, which we have reported, presented its former features in every important respect again to day. Perhaps somewhere about halt the quantity advertised has now passed the hammer; the proportion of what is sold to what is bought in, may be regarded as between one-fourth and fifth. WOOL SALES These sales continue to be confined to Colonial Wool entirely, which sells briskly at the advance we quoted yesterday. But little besides Colonial descriptions is announced fur bale. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, There has been few sales effected in Cotton this clay, the entire trans actions not exceeding 1,500 bags, for which, however, our quotations of yesterday were obtained. There was a great degree of dullne.ss existing throughout the market. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. k% heat. liarlej. Oats. I Cleans. Pea se. Per Ottarter. Blandford Srigr. Chard S. to S. 51 62 54 54 I. S. 31 12 23 24 L. to s. 1 s. to s 0 1 25 40 43 13 26 34 4$ - 21 40 16 20 33 40 24 20 , 33 43 10 20 1 30 34 20 32 42 16 20 :30 3 - 2 23 ~ ,r1 4 1 43 10 QS 35 42 29 8 J 38 43 20 23 27 43 22 %4 41 43 18 26 i 32 44 20 30 32 Long Sutton--. Lout sewark Vol tnnhana eeterlx , rough - Plymouth .---- Putitett act-- va (0,1 11 4111 Wisbech 54 62 46 60 28 SS 53 58 52 61 49 59 34 A 49 62 40 SA R 4 30 34 38 25 31 21 31 25 35 2A 31 35 42 30 34 - 41 36 38 24 30 65 70 43 64 13 62 DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.---Last night, about ten o'clock, an alarming fire broke out in the stables attached to the corn and flour granary of Mr. R. Stevens, at the end of College-street, Belvidere-road Lambeth, and within a short distance of Goding's new ale brewery, for which great appre hensions were felt by those who saw the fire at a distance and from the bridges. It appeal s that the fire originated in a stable, in which were three horses, the property of Mr. Ste vens. Directly the alarm was given the most strenuous ex tions were made to save the poor animals, but without effcct— the fire, which was fanned by a strong north-east wind, spread very rapidly over the stable, in which was a large quantity of p e ople were even unable to ent er t h e i nter i or o st f r t a b w e -, and h building, te and the horses perished. The premises were principally constructed of wood, and in a very short time the flames ascended to a fearful height, and presented a splendid appearance front the opposite shore. In about ten minutes after the bl aze was first seen, the Waterloo-road engine was on the spot, but owing to the intense frost, the water-plugs • being frozen up, it was nearly twenty minutes before the ma chine could be brought into operation. The granary, which was two stories in height, was soon in flames front top to bottom, and threatened the entire destruction of the extensive steam saw mills and timber yard adjoining. Mr. Walker, the proprietor of the latter place, was soon on the spot, labouring under consilerablc anxiety for the safety of his property, or dered the large steam-engine to be set to work as soon as poss ibl e . About eleven o'clock two stacks of timb-r, stand ing on the north-west side of the building, took tire, and, being previously heated, burnt with fearful rapidity. The granary and stables vvoee totally consumed ; all the exertions of the flyenten to save any portion o f t h em p r oving ineffectual. The destruction of property, particularly grain, roust be im mense; there was also a quantity of flour on the prenti , es. The buildings are insured in the Sun Fire-office. One person who bad sent corn to the amount of 2001. to the granary is also insured. The granary was composed almost uutirely of wood, which accounts for its rapid destruction. We regret to state a fireman, named Bonrue, tnot with a serious accident. In ascending to the roof of the College saw mills, he fell through one of the loop holes on the first floor of the building, and pitched on his head. An inunengo r o t iltitude were collected oil the barges during the Aro, and so eager was their curiosity thut many or them got half drowned, and some approached so near the flames that they narrowly escaped being burnt, SPOIL TING INTELLIGENCE TA T TER.SA LL' S—YESTERDA Y. TILE DERBY. Nearly the whole of the betirg, which was far from brisk, was eonlined to outside Derby horses, and, so far as it con cerned them, did not possess any particular interest. The changes amongst the favourites were trifling. 1,100 to 100 was betted against Nonplus. and the same odds offered against him at the close. I)' Egville, lon, end Grey Momus were a shade bitter thm on Nloaday. Cobweb not in aq much re quest. The average prices at the finish were as follow 1 I to 1 agst Mr. Armitage's Nonplus colt—offered I 1 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinek's D'Egville—offered 13 to 1 agst. Lord Jersey's Cobweb colt—offered 13 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Grey Mornut.--take 14 ft 1 14 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's lon—take 16 to 1 . 16 to I agst Mr. E. Peel's The Early Bird—take 17 to 1 25 to 1 agst Mr. Worrall's Dormouse—offered 35 to 1 agst Mr. A. Smith's Cracker—offered 50 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's c. out of Tranby's dam—tal4tl 50 to 1 agst Mr. Iliehardson's Isionc Adam—taken 1000 to 15 50 to 1 agst Mr. Ford's Quo Minus—taken 1000 to 15 50 to 1 agst Ld Westminster's Richard Roe—taken 1000 to 15 50 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldiston's brother to Ebberston—taken 1000 to 15 50 to 1 agst Mr. Watt's Dash—taken 1000 to 14 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Bowes's Brother to Aleppo—taken 3000 to 45 was betted against each of th© following - fr ,ur in one bet :—Davie Gellatley, Monc Adam, Bretby, and and 2000 to 30 agst the same horses, exe-u--11" Idi ~ichard Roe ; .Alone. Adam ; 50 given to have the 4000 returned if Mr. T: ar l eton ' s !li a i se s h ou ld run ; and 20 to receive 2000 if Mr. I :ambton's Dromedary should • - against Dromedary. win. 3000 to 24 was afterwards '.aid NEWMARKETApr:IRST SPRING MEETING. ances for the Free Handicaps. ; t AlimrnAv.--Sweepstakes of 100 sots. each, h. ft. A.F.—Phos- Thorns, Sst. I'2lb ; Cowboy, ist. 91b ; Quicksilver, ist. 91b ; Skyl [eygelce, 7st, WEuNF.snAv.—Sweepstakes of 50/. each, h. ft. T.Y.C.— Pocket Hercules, 7st. 111 b ; Fifer, ist. 111 b ; Saracen colt, 7st. 21b. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, JAN. B.—Wind E.S.E., strong breeze, with snow and thick weather. PORTRNIOUTII, JAN. 18.—Wind E.N.E. fine and fresh breezes.—Ar rived the La Jeune Polletias, Patel, from Bordeaux ; Emma and Louise, Ilae.lop, from Rio Janeiro. Sailed, the Bolton, Young, for Madras and Bengal. FALmourit, Jas. 17.—Wind N.N.E. to E.N.E.—Arrived the Eme rald Isle (steamer), Ga'liver, from Gibraltar and Cadiz ; left Gth inst., Lisbon 10th, Oporto and Vigo 11th ; Calpe (steamer), Cox, from Gib. raltar, left 4th inst., Cadiz oth, and Lisbon 10th ; fiord, Pedersen. from Long Sound; Juno (steamer), Moriarty, from London. Sailed, the Jeune Theodore, far Havre de Grace; Pandora (packet), Lieut.. Lines, for the Havannah, Belize, and Mexico; Sheldrake (packet), Lieutenant I'assingham, for the West Indies; Emerald Isle (steamer), Gallivor ; Agendrea, Harrison ; Ann, Clemence, for London ; Lavinia, Hicks ; and Elizabeth, Robertson ; True Friendship, Lath, for Ports.. mouth ; Indian Chief, Spurdell, for Poole ; Ramona (steamer), King, on a cruise. The City of Londonderry (steamer), from Falmouth, was. going into Vigo on the 11th inst. per Emerald Isle. The Calpe (Aeamer), was run into on the 11th inst., 70 miles west of Scilly, by the smack Atalanta, of Belfast, from London, for St. Michael's, and received trifling damage. PLYSIOUIII, JAN. 17.—Wind E.N.E—Put back the Fair Arcadian, Rogers, Dominica packet, Ratcliff, Mary Law, Lively, Shettle, from London, and a!I the others which sailed yesterday. Sailed the Lady Newman, Newman, fur Penzance ; Mediterranean, Place, for Parma. LIVERPOOL, Jars. 18.—Wind E., moderate.—Arrived the Susan and Jane, from Sligo ; Hope, Connor, Bulrush, James Crawford, Young, Larne, and Hope, from Jersey ; Lark, Jones, from Gloucester ; Frui. terer, Shand, from Newport; Phoebe, M`Dodd, from Newry ; Hibernia, ISl'Dough, from Galloway ; Lancashire Lass, from London. Arrived off, the Perdonnet and Peruvian, from New Orleans ; Lockwoods, from St. John's, New Brunswick; Walter Scott, from Savannah. HULL, JAN. 18,—Arrived the St. Petit, Gunman, St. Petersburgh. Ilumniat, JLN. 18.—Arrived the Fortnna, Paulson, St. Petersburgh. Cowed, JAN. 1 8.—Arrived the Evelina, Pascal, from Rio Janeiro. CLYDE, JAN. 18— Arrived the Hamilla, Shaw, and Leguan, Porown, from Demerara. LIMERICK, JAN. 16.—Arrived the Mercury, Bouree, from London. DuNuemcss, JAN. 18.—Arrived off, the Cruiser, Candley, Clrei me. GLOUCESTER, JAN. 17.—Arrived the Felicity, Douglas, from Lime rick ; Charlotte, Malon, from Wyburg. The Sprightly, Spence, from London, was u2on the rocks near Shields 17th inst., and bilged. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Arrivals this morning, a French Mail, also a Mail from Gibraltar, by' the Emerald, sailed on the 6th of Jan., Cadiz 6th of Jan. Lisbon 10th of Jan., Oporto 11th Jan., Rlgo 11th Jan. Ship-letters from Lisbon and Rio Janeiro, by the Calpe, arrived off Falmouth. We have r. salved the Gibraltar Chronicle to the 6th of January, and Malta papers to the 28th of December. The Gibraltar papers do not contain news of the least importance ; they are filled with English and French accounts. Exchange on London.--Bills 90 days' date, 48 to 481 ; Cadiz 8 days' sight, per cent. discount ; Madrid 11 per cent. discount. By the Malta Mail it is stated that the news from Constantinople is of the most satisfactory nature, that the plague has totally disappeared, and no more spoken of, and that commercial affairs were beginning to as_ sume a greater activity. The Malta papers say that they have authority to state that it is the in tention of Government to impose a duty on spirits distilled iii Malta nearly equal to the duty now levied on imported spirits. or to prohibit the distillation of spirits entirely in these islands ; in which latter case, a moderate compensation will be made to the persona now holding licenses to distil. The French mail has arrived with the express from Paris ; also with the news from Lisbon ; both of which are not of such importance. We do not find as yet any confirmation of the death of the King of Prussia reported at Brussels ; had it taken place, no doubt the Stras burgh telegraph would have announced the event to the King of the French, FUNDS. S. L, k, 30 32 32 '24 32 34 - 32 POWERFUL MUSICAL BOXES, in wood vases, 12 inches long, by 5 inches wide, each playing Four Airs, with the mechanism finished in a very superior manner, are offered for Five Guineas each. Also a few of the same description, with Six Airs, price Seven Guineas each, at T. COX SAVORY'S, Workinig Silversmith, Goldsmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London ( Seven Doors from Graceehurch-street). N. B. The small musical boxes, 3i inches long, continue seliing in tin cases, pl ice 19s. each, or in composition shall cases, at .`sfs. each. The Subscribers of Lloyd's now removed to the South Sea House, find themselves well accommodated, and the business of the Captain's room is removed to the City of London Tavern, which is almost oppo site to that of Lloyds', which is very convenient for all parties. Consols opened this morning at 911 sellers, for February account, same for money, ex dividend, which was the closing prices of yesterday. The interesting debate in the House of Lords last night, has not had any effect on the Funds at present. Exchequer Bills, 53 55; India Bonds, 50 52, to be paid off 13s. to 155.; Bank Stock, '205 to 1 ; Spa. nish Active, opened at 19 % %; Portuguese, 99 4 % ; Three per Cents , 19%; Colombian, 941 ; Brazil, 721 ; Dutch, 52% 1 i Mexican, 261 27. There is an arrival from Rio Janeiro of the sth Nov., as yet not any thing has transpired. No arrivals from the United States. PRICES OF STOCKS 'runs DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock .. 205% 5 loom Stuck ........ 2 per Carat. ,:ed. .. 82 1% :ntto Bonds 3 per Cart. ":lons 91 % 14 South Sea Stock ......... •.. ..... 3% per Cent _..... ... Ditto Red..... ..... . ...........10)34 99% Nt w Ditto ....... ...... • ... ___. New 3% i.T Culli 99% IA 13 pa: Cent. Anne,tes ll/51 ... -- New 5 per Cent.. . — Exch. Pills, £1 `",, , ,i. .... .„56 54 Inn. Bank Long Annuitiestocaerre Ditt0..,,,,,., ..: 50 . . 56 54 rini. Jan. 5,, 1860 14% Ditto Str - ,:il ' L6 54 pm. Oct. 10, 1 859 - D 1111 n ( Ditto ;:oonn e rci a l — —• Jan. 5, M Jan. 5, lAill - April •,, 1814/ ......... - Jan. f. ;' ,7 " - Corsois for Accomit 913.4% PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian bonds ......„ — Peruvian Bonds — Belgian Bows— Ditto Account — Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds „. „,, „. Data Account .... — Ditto New 80nd5.... —. ilJetlos Ayres Bonds — Ditto Account — Ditto Account. hillisii Bonds ..... .. ...... Ditto Account. Russian Bongs, 189.2 — C taimhiat - , anad,„ .. ..,. ......... .. _ Ditto Account — Ditto Aeeotird. - Crlumbial. Bonds, 1824 _ - Ditto Account ...... .... Ditto Account ...... ..... ..... Dtni;h fionda ....., Ditto Acc0unt........ — Ditto A ceonn , — Greek Boii-i5....„ .. Ditto Bonds, 1825 ....... . -- 4 per cent. —f. --a Ditto Account , — 3 per cent aleatean Bonds, 5 per ct,rit.... Exchange 2si. CO:. Ditto Account .......... ...... Dutch, 9y,, per cent 5234 Ditto, 6 per cent. )qtc> Acc0unt........... ..... --1 Ditto, :. per cent lOl% % Neap01itan......,... ......... ...... Ditto Account -. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Rhymney Iron Mining Company Birmingham and Derby Railway (amnia.). Dublin and Kilkenny Railway Company Eistern Counties Railway 3 11,(% Great western Railway Company 55 64 54 9 irtiztituti Railway CO:,1,311; ndon and Greenwich sailway Company 2O 16% 17 London and Southampton Railway Company—, 50 31) London and Southampton (New) Railway 5 20 i.chester and Birmingham Rai1way........ H an Vinland Railway Company 95 25% 1.1 HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. We understand that the great accumulation this morning of ice on the river has caused some apprehension of danger to the shipping- About 10 o'clock a large field of ice with the ebb tide carried away the lower moorings and the tier of vesseN attached to the London Dock. The arrival from Rio Janeiro this morning is of the sth November; the last arrival was of the 4th November; and by way of Lisbon, 1I th November. we do not hear any news of consequence by the above con veyance. Consuls are not so good as in the morning, when they were 91i buyers ; since which tney have receded to 91a for the Account, which is supposed to be owing to the speech of Lord Durham on the Canadian affh:rs, and in which lie is not quite confident of success. Exchequer Bills, 56 54 23d. per day; India Bonds, 50 52; Bank Stock, 905 i Spanis'i Active, 193 1 with Coupons ; Portuguese Three per Cents, 193; Dutch Two_and-n-Ilalf per Cents., 523. No arrivals as yet from the United States. THREE O'CLOCK. The fire has again broken out in the vaults under the Royal EX change, caused by opening one of the passages. The engines are now going to work in front of Cornhill. Consols for the Account, 015. DIED. On Wednesday night, the 17th inst., at his seat, Bromley Hill, Kent, the Right lion. Charles Lord Farnborough, G.C.B. At Wymering, Hants, on Monday the 15th inst., after a few hours illness, of an inflammation in the wind-pipe, the Rey. Jam es Ilenville, A. M , formerly Fellow of New College, Oxford, and for thirty-five years the highly re s pected Curate of Wymering a " 3 Widley. Ile died universally beloved, and by all classes de e p l y lamented, in the 59th year of his age. On the 15th i ns t., at N o . 44, Oxford-terrace, Sophia , only daughter of the Into Rev. Joseph Parson, formerly of C am p o,/ Ash, Suffolk, On Sunday, the 14th inst., at Thornhill, near Southamp ton, Captain George Ch ar l es H enr y Mainwaring, of the Royal Arti ller y - On the 11th in s t., a t Apl e y Castle, Shropshire, Wm. Cha rlton, Esq., aged 77. 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